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The 43-year-old British photographer who was taken hostage in Syria in July 2012 touts the militant group’s rule over Mosul – Iraq‘s second-largest city with more than 2 million people. In the video the captive is forced to refute several media reports of mass murders and repeated human rights violations as he tours a local…

Updated by Zack Beauchamp on September 17, 2014, 1:10 p.m. ET @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com An image of an ISIS fighter with the group’s flag, taken from a YouTube video uploaded by ISIS. (ISIS/YouTube) Don’t miss stories. Follow Vox! The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria…wait. Stop. I was going to start describing it, but I…

Publication: Volume: 0 Issue: 0 August 1, 2014 03:38 PM Age: 17 days By: Michael W. S. Ryan Dabiq Magazine (Source: Twitter user @umOmar246) Executive Summary On the first day of Ramadan (June 28), the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declared itself the new Islamic State and the new Caliphate (Khilafah). For the…

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff June 24 In the war of selfies and hashtags, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria might have won an early victory, but that doesn’t mean the battle with social media is lost. Overwhelmed by ISIS tweets and other online propaganda, pro-Iraq social media accounts have fired back with a hashtag of…

June 29, 2014 2:14 PM A combo of two pictures released by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (L) and … Baghdad (AFP) – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy jihadist fighting in Iraq and Syria, and newly declared leader of a “caliphate” encompassing all Muslims, is increasingly seen as more powerful than…

Rajeev Agarwal While the US, EU, and Russia were squabbling over the future of Ukraine over the past few months, the West Asia region was in stalemated position with the Syrian crisis nowhere near resolution and a sense of fatigue and frustration setting in throughout the region. Meanwhile, almost unnoticed, Iraq underwent its parliamentary elections…

By Gary Brecher On June 16, 2014 As the Scriptures remind us, “Do not believe the hype.” The hype of the moment is ISIS, the Sunni militia that just drove the so-called Iraqi Army out of Mosul, Tikrit, and other Iraqi cities. This is one of those dramatic military reverses that…